Minister's Message

Rev Steve Wallis BA

February, 2011

'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.’ (Acts 2:17)
I don’t normally bore people by sharing my dreams with them, but sometimes God speaks to us in strange ways.
The other night I was woken with a start from a dream, I do not remember clearly what the dream was about, but it was set during the period when my son was a young child, something I can’t remember what had happened to hurt him and like most young children in such circumstances he had begun to cry, it was at this point that I woke up with a start.
Finding that I was agitated by the dream, and therefore unable to go back to sleep, my mind started to dwell on those times in my son’s childhood when he had been upset or hurt, this meant that the possibility of a return to sleep became even more unlikely. And so I prayed. I prayed that God would take these not particularly pleasant memories from me and allow me to go back to sleep. But the answer came back no!
I should be clear here as to how I heard the answer, it was not an audible voice, but that voice that you sometimes hear inside your head when you are praying.
Clearly this voice said no! It then went on to say ‘learn the lesson – just as you feel the hurt when your child is hurt – so I feel the pain of my children – just as you weep with your child so I weep with my children.
The message was one that said; I should learn to feel with the heart of God – weeping over the lost.
But this is not just a message for me – but one for the church, our Heavenly Father weeps for his lost children, we to in our prayers need to feel the depth of that love.

May we know the mind of God and feel with his heart


Steve


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